Meghan McCullough, MD
Hand Surgery · Los Angeles, CANPI 1265835383
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,424 of the $7,239 with a category attached, or 61.1%. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.9%. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,283 and has fallen 96.4% since, to $83 in 2025.
Across 44 payments — averaging $164.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$2K
- Axogen$1K
- Evolution Surgical, Inc$1K
- Polynovo North America LLC$753
- KCI USA, Inc.$425
- Acumed LLC$362
- plus $2K from 14 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $13,629 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$27K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4256%
- Travel & lodging$1,18916%
- Food & beverage$4,42461%
- Education$1,20017%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 5 | $1,512 |
| Axogen | 8 | $1,230 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 1 | $1,200 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 6 | $753 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $425 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $362 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $254 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 2 | $238 |
| Exsomed Corporation | 1 | $236 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $186 |
| Tenex Health Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $141 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $121 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 5 | $104 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $72 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $25 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$1,170
- Novosorb BTM$598
- INnate Implant$473
- ACUMED$362
- INTEGRA$362
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$254
- InFrame Implant$236
- ArrowPhix System$236
- ArcPhix System$236
- Checkpoint Stimulators$150
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$141
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$141
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$125
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$121
- PRIMATRIX$121
How this compares
$7,239 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 249 hand surgery providers in California.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 16 | $83 |
| Methylprednisolone | 12 | $74 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 11 | $35 |
| Meloxicam | 14 | $31 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Luke NicholsonLos Angeles$117K
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- Eugene TsaiLos Angeles$26K
- Ali AzadLos Angeles$19K
- Milan StevanovicLos Angeles$14K
- Neil JonesLos Angeles$9K
- Amy LaddStanford$1.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.